Franz Mehring

Franz Mehring (27 February 1846-28 January 1919) was a member of the German Social-Democratic Party and the Spartacus League.

Biography
Franz Mehring was born on 27 February 1846 in Schlawe, Pomerania, German Empire (present-day Slawno, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland). In 1868, he moved to Berlin to study, and he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1891. During World War I, Mehring later abandoned the SPD and helped to found the Spartacus League of Germany with Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, and he was sympathetic towards the Spartacist League during the German Revolution. Deeply affected by the murders of Liebknecht and Luxemburg, Mehring died of illness on 28 January 1919.